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All six courses on the MS in Project Management and Operations page are in scope.

QSO 510 Quantitative Analysis for Decision Making supplies the analytical tools: probability and expected value, decision trees, regression and forecasting, linear programming with Solver, queuing and simulation, applied to resource and scheduling choices.

QSO 600 Operations Management covers how organizations turn inputs into goods and services: process design and capacity planning, Lean and Six Sigma, quality management, inventory systems, supply chain coordination, scheduling and operations strategy.

QSO 640 Project Management follows the life cycle from initiation to closing: the charter and stakeholder register, scope and the work breakdown structure, schedule development with the critical path method, cost estimating and budgeting, risk management, quality, communications, procurement and earned value management, aligned with the PMBOK Guide.

QSO 680 Seminar in Project Management goes deeper into the practice: agile and hybrid delivery with Scrum and Kanban, program and portfolio management, project governance, leading project teams and lessons from projects that failed, such as large public IT rollouts.

QSO 690 Topics in Operations Management examines current operations issues, including supply chain resilience after recent disruptions, automation and AI in operations, sustainability and reshoring, through research and case analysis.

QSO 700 Project Management and Operations Capstone closes the degree with an applied project that plans or improves a real or realistic initiative using tools from across the program.

The course table on this page links each one to its help pages.

Project coursework is strongest when it follows one initiative a student can picture, so the plan begins with the kind of project you run or want to run, the courses left and the terms you plan to take them.

Each course goes to the professional whose practice matches it. A decision analyst takes QSO 510; an operations director from manufacturing takes QSO 600; a PMP-certified program manager takes QSO 640; an agile coach who has led enterprise transformations takes QSO 680; a supply chain analyst takes QSO 690; a senior program manager takes QSO 700.

One initiative can carry the degree. Picture a municipal water utility replacing forty miles of aging cast iron mains over three years. QSO 510 can model crew allocation and forecast break rates, QSO 600 can redesign the utility's work order process with Lean tools, QSO 640 can build the charter, WBS, critical path schedule, budget, risk register and earned value reports, QSO 680 can compare a predictive and a hybrid delivery approach for the customer notification software that goes with it, QSO 690 can address supply risk for ductile iron pipe and QSO 700 can deliver the integrated project plan.

In each term, posts are drafted before the week opens, and schedules, models and papers arrive several days ahead of their deadlines.

As each course closes, the initiative's scope, schedule and figures pass to the next specialist on one page.

The MS Project Management bench has delivered projects and run operations: a PMP-certified program manager who has led infrastructure programs over $100 million, an agile coach who has trained teams in Scrum and SAFe, an operations director from automotive manufacturing, a supply chain analyst, a decision analyst who builds optimization models and a construction scheduler fluent in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.

Credentials include the PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster and ASQ Six Sigma belts.

Their schedules have logical dependencies and realistic durations, their risk registers name owners and responses and their earned value reports explain what the indices mean for the project.

A second professional reviews every deliverable and recalculates every schedule, model and earned value figure before you receive it.

Matching follows the project type as well: infrastructure goes to someone who has scheduled public works, and software goes to someone who has run agile teams.

Scheduling is the first challenge. QSO 640 asks for a work breakdown structure that captures the whole scope and a network schedule with correct dependencies, and a single missing predecessor changes the critical path.

Quantitative work is the second. QSO 510 decision trees, regression and Solver models require careful setup, and earned value calculations in QSO 640 must be right to the decimal.

Method judgment is the third. QSO 680 asks students to choose and defend predictive, agile or hybrid approaches for specific projects, not recite the Agile Manifesto.

Operations breadth is the fourth. QSO 600 and QSO 690 span process design, quality, inventory and supply chain strategy.

Most students also manage real projects or operations, where go-lives, inspections and month-end reporting collide with 10-week courses, and many are preparing for the PMP exam at the same time.

Course prices follow each syllabus. QSO 640 and QSO 700 are usually the costliest to hand over, QSO 510 and QSO 600 sit in the middle and QSO 680 and QSO 690 tend to cost less.

The scope is yours. Agile practitioners often keep QSO 680; operations supervisors often keep parts of QSO 600; most hand over QSO 640 and the capstone.

If syllabi reach us about ten days before a term, each specialist reads the course and any case first; joining a course already in week three or four is fine.

Timed quizzes, proctored exams, the PMP exam itself, recorded presentations and confidential employer project data stay with you. QSO 510 and QSO 640 also appear on other SNHU business master's pages, so that work fits more than one program.